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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 20:28:16 EDT

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FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/14/1063478066981.html

QUOTES:

"South Korea's most powerful typhoon on record left at least 110 people
dead or missing, knocking down buildings, damaging ships and triggering
floods that forced 25,000 from their homes.

Rescuers were frantically trying to reach a dozen people trapped in a
karaoke bar in the southern city of Masan, where eight bodies have been
found so far.

Typhoon Maemi - "cicada" in Korean - tore into southern parts of the
peninsula on Friday night, packing record winds of up to 216 kmh and
crunching everything in its path before heading out to sea on Saturday.

Television footage showed giant container cranes twisted into pretzel
shapes, a row of shredded seaside shops, overturned cars floating down
streets turned into rivers, and buckled roads and bridges.

Electric signs showered sparks over pedestrians hunched under blown-out
umbrellas on flooded city streets.

The disaster prevention council said most of the deaths were due to
electrocution, landslides and drownings.

Tidal waves heaved an evacuated cruise liner onto its side on a rainswept
beach in Pusan as up to 453 millimetres of rain was dumped across some areas."

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